Use Multiple Email Clients

PCs and mobile devices can run multiple email clients. For example you could install and configure Outlook,Windows live mail ,Thunderbird etc on the same PC.

Each of these clients can be used to access an email account.

This method has the advantage that all email is kept separate but you will need to get familiar with several different client interfaces.

Use a Mixture

Joe could choose to consolidate the Yahoo email account and the ISP email accounts as they are personal, and don’t need to be kept private or separate.

Joe could use the Yahoo Email service to consolidate the email or an email client like outlook.

Joe could access the business account using webmail or a email client App that wasn’t being used for accessing the other accounts.

General Security Considerations

If you consolidate email accounts using a master mailbox then the master account contains all of your emails, and would allow an hacker easy access to all email accounts if it were compromised.

Common Questions and Answers

Q- Is it better to use an email client rather than a online account to consolidate email from Multiple accounts?

A- It all depends on your preferences, but using an online master email account means that all your email is available in one place and from anywhere in the world using a web mail client.

Q- If I consolidate the email in a master online mailbox e.g. Gmail what happens to email sent to the original mailbox?

A- It depends on how you setup the master online account to access the mailbox. Usually you will leave it in the original mailbox. In which case you will effectively have two copies.

Q- I’ve consolidated all my email on Gmail but my email messages take a long time to appear in my Gmail account?

A- This is normal as Gmail needs to connect to the original mailbox to retrieve the mail. It does this on a scheduled basis which you cannot change. This is probably the biggest problem of using this method.

Q- If I consolidate all my email on Gmail where is the email that I send stored?

A- When consolidating email addresses you need to send email from a single account.i.e. your Gmail account. It is then stored in the sent items of you Gmail account.